In cooperation with the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, Slovenian think tank Svetilnik organized the 6th Liberal Colloquium titled “Liberalism: Future for Slovenia”. The event, which was held between September 26-28, 2014 at...
November 7, 2014 1:43 pm / no comments
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In a policy analysis “Regulacija medbančnih provizij za kartične plačilne transakcije” Svetilnik evaluated how the European Commission’s Proposal for a Regulation on Multilateral Interchange Fees (MIFs)...
November 6, 2014 10:08 am / 39 comments
The 7th annual Liberty Seminars are being held September 22-27, 2014 at Lake Bohinj, Slovenia. This is a life-time opportunity to DISCUSS, PRESENT & DEBATE human rights through a lens of economics, public policy, history, philosophy, and...
September 23, 2014 9:33 am / no comments
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Well-functioning courts are the foundation of an effective legal order and central institutions of a market economy. Courts are the key not only to upholding property rights, but also to promoting large-scale commerce...
September 14, 2014 4:00 pm / 37 comments
The renowned constitutional scholar Miro Cerar and his party (Stranka Mira Cerarja – SMC) founded only at the beginning of June won the snap parliamentary elections in Slovenia on Sunday, July 13, 2014. The green-liberal SMC came immediately...
July 19, 2014 10:00 am / 3 comments
Privatisation is a popular treatment for a range of economic diseases – inefficiencies, market distortions, graft, and corruption. To use a different metaphor, privatisation exorcises the spectre of political meddling from the economy. It...
March 17, 2014 3:37 pm / 5 comments
An extra-terrestrial observer would have noticed a global financial and economic crisis on planet Earth. Many earthlings would say this is a mess we humans have put ourselves into. And, although there are wide differences regarding how the situation...
March 5, 2014 1:23 pm / no comments
Free trade is an important component of economic freedom. As such, trade liberalization does not only enrich choices in our supermarkets and lower prices of the products we find there, but also leads to more jobs, higher living standards, economic...
March 5, 2014 1:09 pm /